1 / 2El Salvador Migrant Deaths TexasValeria Ramirez, 6, listens to speeches along with the rest of her family as attendees take part in a vigil for Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, Valeria, i
n McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 30, 2019. The young father and daughter who drowned in each other's arms last week in an attempt to swim across the Rio Grande to the United States have been returned to El Salvador for an expected burial at a private ceremony in the capital Monday. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The bodies of a man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas are being laid to rest in their native El Salvador.
About 50 people are carrying flowers and following a hearse toward the burial site at La Bermeja cemetery in southern San Salvador, the capital. Journalists are not allowed access to the private ceremony.Among them was Berta Padilla, who said she knew the victims.A heartbreaking photograph of the father and daughter that circled the globe underscored the perils faced by migrants and asylum-seekers trying to reach the U.S.
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